Default Bookmarks / Presets Being Modified

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Have a thorny issue. I create bookmarks/presets for global users, but then if you visit the collection and modify anything (the width of a column, for example), Directus creates a copy of the preset specific to that user. This is NOT optimal! Users can quickly destroy their own default view and have no way to get it back (because there’s no “reset bookmark” functionality in this case).

Anyway to fix this? It’s a real headache.

(By the way, I taggged this as “Extensions” because there’s no “App” tag I could find.)

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This is the native behavior of the platform, as the intent was to allow individuals to fine-tune their presets without messing with other user’s experience (especially when it comes to things like changing the sorting order or filters), but nowadays where a lot of services are more multiplayer oriented it indeed comes with some unexpected side-effects. I’ve jotted down your note on our end as a feature request. I can’t just strip it out complete as that would be a bigger breaking change, but there’s a world where we add it as a setting in settings you can opt-out of :thinking: I’ll also have to think through which parts are persisted to the user versus the layout itself, as there’s a meaningful difference between “ephemeral” actions like filter/sort versus changing the layout options